A support worker told a jury his team had tried to section a hostel resident before he killed a neighbour.

Stephen Loveridge, a support worker said Jeffrey Barry exhibited thoughts about killing and displayed sexualised behaviour while a resident of flats for people with mental health illnesses on Wells Road in Knowle, run by Milestones Trust.

He said he and colleagues had striven to have him sectioned, but were told there were no beds available at a secure mental health hospital.

Eventually paranoid schizophrenic Barry was sectioned, but when released back to the flats he killed fellow resident Kamil Ahmad.